Blog Posts Tagged with "United States"

ICS and the smart grids are two of these priority areas identified by the EU-US WG. In the last decade, these systems have been facing a notable number of incidents, including the manifestation of Stuxnet which raised a lot of concerns and discussions among all the actors involved in the field...

The event is organized by the European Commission in co-operation with ENISA and the US Department of Homeland Security. The objective of the event is to bring intermediaries together in order to establish a reinforcing momentum in awareness raising and dissemination effort on topics pertaining to information security...

Plan X, launched by DARPA, comes at a crucial moment in which the strategic importance of the garrison in cyberspace has become a prerequisite. We have crossed the threshold of a new era, one where we will fight wars with bits instead bullets, one in which the hackers are a new generation of soldier...

Today is Memorial Day, the day we celebrate the men and women who have served our country in our armed forces. I would ask each of you to honor our veterans, even if it is just a moment to reflect on those who made the ultimate sacrifice in giving their lives to protect the rest of us...

In 2009, there was a discussion on a forum for pilots about an article that argued that a commercial aircraft could be brought down by DIY EMP bombs. Also in 2009, the U.S. Patent Application for an Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) hardened information infrastructure was filed...

This statement of intent will help enhance situational awareness and information sharing on cybersecurity issues, increase collaboration and sharing of cybersecurity best practices, and create opportunities for training and cooperation in cyber exercises...

"We share an abiding commitment to keeping cyber-criminals from victimizing our citizens and weakening our trust in networked technology. Owing in part to our close partnership, it is harder than ever before for criminals to operate in cyberspace with impunity..."

The Letter of Intent recognizes expanded coordination between the US and the Netherlands, and outlines several areas to further collaborate on cybersecurity including incident management and response activities, control systems security, and cybersecurity exercises...

China, Russia, Israel etc etc are all key players in the espionage world which now includes the 5th battlespace of information warfare carried out on the internet and within computer networks. To think anything else because someone asked them just how prepared “they” were for “cyberwar” is just appallingly stupid...

The US leads in data security breaches while the EU leads in data security. The EU has strong, uniform data security regulation, whereas the US has a quilt-work of hundreds of security directives where each agency has it’s own system for data security compliance...

Cyberspace is comparable to a stormy sea in which you navigate by sight, and where the scenarios are changing rapidly in an unpredictable way by the presence of uncontrolled entities such as cyber hacktivists, in addition to cyber armies set up by the main world powers...

“Even if they brilliantly secure their networks, the greatest threat that organizations face is that they are still vulnerable if their minimum wage security guards are disgruntled or their physical access control systems can be easily bypassed...”

Thanks to a hacker group in India, Infosec Island has source material that demonstrates wide spread cyber espionage on the part of the Indian Government which the hackers may publish. This is a historically significant development for those of us who track cyber espionage...

Update: “The Lords of Dharmaraja” claim to have released the source code for Symantec's Norton Utilities as was threatened earlier today. The alleged data dump has not been confirmed, and company officials have not yet released a statement. Exclusive interview with YamaTough here...

Not unlike other testimonies on the subject of Cyber Warfare and Cyber Doctrine coming from the US, we see a very 'red-blooded American' attitude seeping through, and quite frankly that's not helping matters...

Infosec Island received sixty-eight sets of usernames and passwords for compromised US government network accounts which “The Lords of Dharmaraja” said were acquired from servers belonging to India’s Ministry of External affairs and the National Informatics Centre...